Fontana Empire Center, Llc v. City Of Fontana

307 F.3d 987 FONTANA EMPIRE CENTER, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company; Fontana Empire Center II, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CITY OF FONTANA, a municipal corporation; Kenneth R. Hunt, an individual; Raymond Bragg, an individual; Frank Schuma, an individual; Stone & Youngberg, LLC, a California limited liability company, Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-55030. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted May 6, 2002. Filed October 3, 2002. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Betty M. Shumener and Henry H. Oh, Robert O. Barton, Dewey Ballantine, Los Angeles, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Kendall H. MacVey, Best Best & Krieger, Riverside, CA; Edward P. Sangster, Dylan Carp, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, San Francisco, CA, for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California; A. Howard Matz, District Judge, Presiding; D.C. No. CV-01-04491-AHM. Before LAY, * CANBY, JR. and PAEZ, Circuit Judges. OPINION LAY, Circuit Judge. FACTS 1 Fontana Empire Center and Fontana Empire Center II (collectively FEC) filed a civil rights action in federal district court. In…